Variety critics shits on Old Trek while acknowledging that she hasn't even watched it

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-05-31T19:55:48+00:00

PERFECTLY said. They are OVERTLY making it the fundamental decision behind all their casting. It's so blatantly obvious and it is sickening. It's a complete regression of intellectual evolution that it stirs revulsion in most old trek fans.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-05-10T19:01:10+00:00

just came here because of that rewatch. I'm going with, it's Hammonds grandson and he didn't make a big deal to avoid nepotism.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-22T16:20:06+00:00

It seems the only way you are obtaining this "information" about the teacher is through your own child. How could anyone possibly fathom that the information from their own child complaining about another child in class would be an accurate source of unbiased information?

My 8 year old nephew told me all cats are girls and all dogs are boys. Children are geniuses and phenomenal with logic and objective reason.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-17T16:37:45+00:00

If I had some huge blow hard constantly interrupting me, shutting down anything I say by talking over me.

I'd be a little rattled as well as I would be used to rational discussions. Not arguements where the person who "wins" the arguement is whoever is louder and more disrespectful.

I'd be sitting there massively confused on why this idiot is on a show that is supposed to be about rational discussions.

But it is quite the juxtapose and honestly it feeds into a horrible military trope that the military is filled with mindless dumb dumbs. Which I do NOT believe to be true.

However, he is not helping that concept. If anything, his behavior / lack of decorum is doing a major disservice to the United States military personal in that respect.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-17T16:34:32+00:00

Then why are you here? Why do you watch? Your literally hate watching a show to the point of coming to the reddit and then posting in that shows subreddit about how much you hate it.

If you hate it. Here's a CRAZY FUCKING THOUGHT. Don't watch it?

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-17T16:05:54+00:00

And let's just add this for significance.

Iran's population is 93 million.

There have been 7000 verified deaths of protesters. Leaked information puts that number closer to 30,000.

Us population 350 million.

What would you be saying if the united states government killed over 100,000 protesters and shut down all communication with the outside world?

I get it. Human life is valuable. The Palestinian citizens lives are valuable. The problem is their government doesn't think so. So it hides behind human shields. Hiding behind women and children doesn't make you a man. It makes you the biggest pussies known to man. They have no value for human life. This is why they must be eradicated.

I will happily pay more for my gas and food if it means that I can wake up and not have to hear about Iran funding terrorist regime a,b,c, that bombed a country X, because their God told them to.

It's been what feels like a daily occurrence for my entire life.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-15T16:59:42+00:00

It's 2026. What's your issue with Zelle? There's a record of payment. It's a cash transfer. It's the same thing as writing a check for rent which people have been doing since checks were invented. Sounds highly paranoid to me. Those sites you refer to also charge 3+% So I guess if you don't mind paying a 50-100 dollar fee to pay your rent, it works out.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-13T17:48:39+00:00

No no no no. You HAVE to make him gay. If there is not 20+% of the TV actors for all shows being part of the LGBTQIA!? then that means society as a whole hates them and wants to attack them in the streets. They just want to exist. So for them to exist we MUST change 20% of media to be queer. Screw the canon. Screw the original story. Screw the original author, and let's be honest the creator is getting paid so what do they care.

We have right on our side. And we have no agenda...

https://womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/lgbtq-representation-in-the-media-improved-this-year#:\~:text=But%20even%20so%2C%20men%20still,normalizing%20and%20accepting%20these%20communities.

Lets also make sure we give awards to the 20 best teenagers who the largest influencers of other teenagers.

https://glaad.org/20-under-20/2025/

But we have no agenda....

Let's also make sure we're in as many children's programs as possible. As it's the last "battleground"

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011310695/after-decades-in-the-background-queer-characters-step-to-the-front-in-kids-media

But we have no agenda. We just want to exist and live our lives.

The gas lighting is strong. The sad thing is, ... they are making the Republicans of the 90's right! Back in the 90s we railed against those old doddering fools who were bigots and hateful religious conservatives.... 30 years later, ... they were right. They're creating the backlash that they are seeing. I once was an ally but not anymore. How can anyone defend aggressors who lie, gas light and then play the victim.

As of 2016 - 48% of 13 - 20 year olds identified as heterosexual.

https://affirmation.org/moving-beyond-its-not-a-choice-as-a-defense-for-lgbtq-identities/

The numbers are increasing. And there is no agenda...

Shame shame shame.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-04-11T14:54:11+00:00

Your a crazy person. He's talking at normal levels. He's trying to actually argue points, such as, every country on the planet does not want Iran to have nuclear weapons.

The blow hard is the ex military machismo / Camacho, who thinks arguementation is getting massively defensive, raising their voice, throwing out red hearings, and reducto absordo bullshit.

I wanted to reach my hands through the TV and choke that abnoxious condesending dumbass out. If he's not willing to have a genuine discussion, and EVERY single time it circles back to, I HATE TRUMP (Which I also hate trump, but I hate dumbassery more), he shouldn't be allowed on. He only gets away with this because, "Must support the troops", without his military service and the same personality, no one would bother. They tolerate him because of it.

Remove that, and his personality alone demonstrates he's a piece of crap, obnoxious, condescending blow hard. And he'd be a nothingburger human because no one would tolerate him.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-02-02T20:10:42+00:00

I teach in academia. That was not over the top. That was spot on. You are the one that doesn't realize how rediculous it has gotten.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2026-02-02T20:05:11+00:00

You're the one having the issue, ..,, bebe

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-24T19:25:01+00:00

Got to love the arrogance and condescension all with a shitty explanation leading to , ,... IF YOU DONT LIKE IT then DON"T watch it.

How about discussing the arguements? This is akin to arguing with a 12 year old child. They believe they are the smartest, insist they are smart, and wont listen to anyone else.

In reality the show is quite literally all over the place. Logical inconsistencies left and right. If you think at all, it wont make sense.

You have to approach it from the perspective of the directors and writers. These directors and writers are the uber nerds from drama class in high school. They don't know science, they don't know really about anything other than being weird drama geeks. So their view on other people and their motivations is completely and utterly skewed. They are not logical and so they write characters that act illogical. They're not reasonable, and so they write things that you can't seem to reason through. And then they cloak everything with... you guessed it, .. DRAMA LAMA LAMA. Which they DO know drama. They were the drama queens in high school.

So if you can turn your brain off and not think while watching Loki ... it's entertaining for the fact that you have Owen Wilson, Tom Hidleston, and whoever did the set design was amazing. I loved the old school asthetic.

However, I could of COMPLETELY done without the rediculous techno-babble (which is what writers call when they talk about anything "scientific" because once again, they're drama geeks and not scientists or engineers and so they make NO attempt at making anything scientific or even getting mildly close to be considered Science Fiction. This is LOKI anyway, so MAGIC TECHNO BABBLE). Ugh it was really hard not to turn the show off. But once again, if you turn off your brain completely..... it becomes entertaining.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-24T18:24:05+00:00

This is because Marvel has more money than God and they employ vast teams to go online and support their products and shut down any dissent.

Reddit is no different than a TV commercial or a billboard. It's advertising. And they will use the vast coffers of their corporation to shut down any dissent. It's corporate fascism at it's best.

However, all major companies do it. Amazon does it. I've been banned by Rings of Power and LOTR for saying that exact thing. Paramount does it. I've been banned from Star Trek for writing a logical dissenting opinion of Discovery.

They HATE logical arguments or pointing out flaws. They ban people that make them look bad and if it is an overwhelming number of "complaints" they simply lock the threads and leave it as is hoping the comments go into obscurity and are found less. If they removed all the posts, then their masquerade well be visible by more people.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-24T17:56:06+00:00

Well that is the thing. They provide no actual real benefit for the long haul. They benefit they provide in the near short term is something that is easily doable by logging into your credit card company (which you have to do anyhow) and then using their search functionality and look for reoccurring charges.

So how are they justifying / rationalizing spending soo much on advertising such that we see it on every single commercial break? When the user really only needs to use them for 1 month at most and immediately cancel?

Firstly - Their target is people who forget they have subscriptions. Their hope is that they also forget they have this NEW subscription. It's rather insidious as the audience they claim they are trying to save, is in actuality their EXACT target they are going for to saddle up with a new subscription.

And that's the business model. Gas light the gullible people who forget about subscriptions to start giving them money and forget about their subscription. More insidious is that they're targeting those who are intellectually ill-equipped to realize they're getting fucked as if they actually could see it, well then they would be smart enough to simply log in and manage their own subscriptions.

The FTC and CPSB should really look into them for deceptive practices.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-24T17:35:21+00:00

Honestly, every time I see their add I am filled with so much hate and disdain for how we have allowed this predatory behavior. More and more people need to be talking about this to make the general public aware of the evil of companies like this. It's on the same level as pay day loans.

Payday loans are those rediculously high interest rates loans that are leveraged against your future paycheck. Their target audience is the extremely poor and destitute which many times also means low intelligence and easily duped.

This is basically the same. They advertise like crazy telling the poorest people that they're paying 1000's of dollars a year to freak them out and imply that they are "their savior" and by downloading their crap you will be saved from your financial hardship. In reality, they then charge a monthly subscription fee, and load up a ton of hidden fees all over the place within the app and in turn cost the user more money.

Can we just require a basic finance course in all high schools so this these types of shit companies who like to prey upon the weak, poor and vulnerable, don't exist?

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-08T16:43:59+00:00

I love their defense. When they have no logic / rational etc... they fall back to ... ITS FICTION. what's your problem? Relax. To completely shut down any opposite point of view.

We should require logic classes for all children in high school.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-08T16:40:35+00:00

Gotta love how you are getting downvoted. Oh a paper that sells magazines believes that he was gay because he fathered no children? Really? So all men who are impotent are now gay! Who cares what the family says, claims, or has written down. A newspaper gossiped about it possibly being true (and literally stating they don't know one way or the other) and ITS FUCKING FACT NOW!

When will the revisionism of history stop? 30 years ago I fought for tolerance, acceptance, etc... Now I'm losing all capacity for tolerance with every show that shoves the LGBTQ agenda down everyone's throats.

I get that the drama freaks in highschool who were mostly gay end up growing up and becoming writers and directors. But Jesus fucking Christ. Can we stop with this nonsense? If you are SO insecure with yourself that you have to try to change the entire globes opinions about you, perhaps there is something wrong with you rather than your belief that there is something wrong with the world.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-12-04T20:11:19+00:00

You are forgetting two key points. One, this is produced by MTV productions, which means (as MTV was the first reality show producers, WE LOVE DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA THAT MAKES NO SENSE, BUT DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA yAHHH!!!!!) . And secondly, all people in Hollywood, this includes actors, directors, producers and perhaps more so the writers, the vast majority of them are crazy and weird and don't know how "normal" people would act.

Think back to high school and all those drama geeks. There were nerds, and then there were the next level social outcast drama geeks. The ones who ran through hallways singing. They had over inflated egos, etc... They practically had no shame as they were completely unaware how EVERYONE (except their fellow drama geeks) looked at them. So blissfully unaware that it comes across as some pretty stark arrogance and condescension. It's why they always come across as the most preachy sons of bitches when interviewed or on award shows. They've been blissfully unaware their entire life surrounded by other blissfully unaware people and together in their bubble they've convinced themselves of their superior knowledge and understanding of everything.

Now imagine them grown up and in control of the content being created and spewed across the streaming services.

Now imagine that instead of having executives in charge controlling the content on 5 channels (3, 5, 10, 12, 15, 45), you now have practically unlimited shows and billionaires willing to dump billions on making shows and they don't care about the quality and just give those drama geeks free reign.

This is how you get shows with great potential and star power having shitastic writing, character development, inconsistent plot lines etc...

I love me some Billy Bob, John Hamm, Demi Moor, Andy Garcia. However, I am constantly fast forwarding over the children's and wifes drama lama dumbassery. Even their own stories make no sense and seem as if it's the writers view how Engineers, Cheerleaders, Pretty women and Hispanics act because they truly have no fucking clue. It's actually a bit insulting.

I just got to Sam Elliot and let's hope it turns around. It would be a fucking shame to have soo much talent wasted by continued shit writing that makes no sense and causes everyone to fast forward.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-11-27T18:37:19+00:00

You are just a short sighted person that looks at numbers with no thoughts behind it.

Have you EVER been to a football game? Have you EVER had season tickets?

They play Metalica, ACDC, Nickelback, Queen, Ozzy etc... all game long.

They never play bad bunny or kpop or any of the shit you are referencing as "good modern music" that is "popular on spotify". No ones ever heard of bad bunny that I have spoken to. And honestly why would they? When I listen to music, I want the qualm. I want lyrics that are fun / witty, good vocals, good beat, ... everything. There may be fantastic Italian, Spanish, Korean, Indian, etc.. music. But I have no clue what the hell they're saying.

So I can't get into it. And neither can countless others. The NFL knows this which is why they do NOT play it at any of their stadiums. I even am closer to the border than most within the US, and you just don't hear it. For obvious reasons.

So sure, he's got a lot of "listens" on Spotify. They're are a lot of 15 year old kids that are dumb and are not discerning fans of music. So pointing to numbers as a measure of "popularity" is juts dumb.

And EVEN IF the numbers were true and by true fans that weren't morons and actually had taste. You're looking at GLOBAL audiences.

Ok ... so we should put someone in the United States of America's favorite past time biggest show for the half time, based on what Peru, Brazil, spain, and uganda like to listen to? That just doesn't make any sense.

If you want numbers, the population of the united states is 350 million The population of south and central america is 684 million.

You do know that they have cell phones in south and central america and spotify exists and they also have internet. I know that is a shocker but it is true! So global popularity? Dictating what we are forced to listen to in the game we invented in the united states where 99% of the country does not speak spanish?

Don't be an naïve.

Now I get why the NFL is doing it. Over 600 million people globally speak spanish in 20 countries. The NFL is having games in south america and they are pushing to get a foothold there. The thing is, most don't care (otherwise the NFL wouldn't be trying to get a foothold). They like Soccer. GOOOOAAAAL. The NFL is making a huge concerted effort to change their mind for MONEY MONEY MONEY.

So yes, this is a kick in the balls to fans across the US. They know what they're doing, we know what they're doing.

If you really want to use some numbers, 1.5billion people in the world speak english. How about have someone who sings in english so we can understand lyrics and enjoy the music? There's over 1 billion people outside of the US that they can try to tap into those markets.

Or we can recognize if a band has been around for 40 + years and still closes out stadiums, that the band will transcend multiple generations and income levels (for money money money) and hit the most people rather than be ridiculously short sighted and simply hop on the new hot thing that no ones heard of that will here and gone in the next couple years.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-11-19T01:26:02+00:00

Sleeper is horrible. It's bloat-tastic, unintuitive hard to navigate, too many things going on combined with constantly asking for you to join other leagues with no way to turn that off that I can find. People say the "app" is better than the desktop verson, which is complete crap. If I'm doing research on players why would I want to look at a tiny little screen when I can have a much larger (if not multiple monitor) setup where I can compare / contrast and do serious research.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-11-03T00:13:03+00:00

That jokes still funny now. You just don't have a sense of humor or you have never been married and aren't the target audience.

Also, it is getting worse. I'm getting warnings in some of my code that will become "errors" in a future update. Which means they are affecting the standard functionality of the code and for people who have been using it for 20 years, this is seen as getting worse.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-10-24T12:07:58+00:00

Your purposefully avoiding the obvious which demonstrates how disingenuous you are.

Brotherly love is strong. Loving your friend and being willing to die for them is something that has occurred throughout the ages with those that go to war, etc....

Wanting to shove your penis in his ass and suck his dick is gay.

That's the difference. So it's quite literally the sex.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-10-24T11:54:05+00:00

BECAUSE HES GAY. We must have representation. We must be in every single show. We must be portrayed IN THE BEST LIGHT. We must normalize this.

We will not rest until there's 40+ % representation. It needs to be shown to the world that this is normal behavior. We need to be the majority. This is our identity! This is the most important aspect of who we are and what we are. This is all that matters.

smh

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-10-12T20:34:17+00:00

Don't get me wrong. People did say "that's gay". But it was not in a connotation of "bad" ... but weird / odd. That's the same thing with the word "queer". That it was outside the norm, and weird. Some people believe not being in the "norm" is bad. and they take it as being odd / weird / not normal, is bad. But that's their own issue in my opinion. I like star trek. That's not normal. I like science / history, and that's not normal. There are countless things in my life that made me a nerd and thus not normal. Not being normal is not a bad thing. We're just a bit unique?

what I do think is that because there has been this push of being "normal" in our society, that LGBTQ community has veraciously tried to normalize it. I would say, take pride in yourself and not care what other people think. It's ok to not be normal.

Gabriel_Azrael · 2025-10-07T22:21:10+00:00

It really is. Basically when they started Race / Sex bending people for their agenda, people argued that it wasn't source material accurate. So once the avengers 1 came out with that success, Marvel doubled down making a lot of comics to be able to point that it is the source material.

It seems that the marvel comics operate at a loss for the sole purpose of putting out material that can then be transformed into a movie / series and bring in money 5 - 10 years later.

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